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Half of the mostly defunct band The Moldy Peaches, Green has put out his fifth solo full-length CD. The album's genre-jumping and stream-of-consciousness lyrics make the title, a term for disarray, seem apt. But the songs are melodic and imaginative.

The son of folk-rockers Richard and Linda Thompson says he didn't listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. But his new album furthers his folk and country roots with some of the contemporary sounds he's grown to like.

Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft are young Londoners who lead an extremely spare band called The xx. They touch on Kraftwerk and The Cure, but never equal their volume.

As a teenager, the singer-songwriter was already touring the world with his rock band. His new album takes him back to before then, when country music blasted out of Texas radio stations. He performs a solo acoustic set in NPR's Studio 4A.

This past summer, you might have found it impossible to avoid the string-saturated "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. Guitarist Joe Satriani thinks it sounds remarkably similar to his 2004 song "If I Could Fly" and has sued for copyright infringement.

Music critic Milo Miles reviews two new albums: Booker T. Jones's Potato Hole, and Allen Toussaint's The Bright Mississippi.

Spending her early career in the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene is no stranger to making musical statements of principle on her own idiosyncratic terms. Her new album is Generation Indigo.

Grammy-winner John Mayer's latest album, Heavier Things, finds the singer-songwriter pulling back from his driving guitar licks to focus more on melodies. Mayer speaks with NPR's Michele Norris about his new album and offers a preview of some of the songs.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play this week's puzzle with KSTX listener, Erin Rodriguez of San Antonio, Texas.

Benmont Tench has a reputation as the guy you want playing on your album — just ask Tom Petty, Bob Dylan or The Rolling Stones.